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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's the end of another epic #FolkloreThursday 🐉 Today's equinox-worthy theme was "Autumn Folklore” 🍂 This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off! Wishing you the best of luck with your Halloween preparations 🎃 1906 Ivar Arosenius

An illustration of a scarecrow flying like a kite above a field of wheat. Four impish beings with red faces and bat wings – representing the four winds – are blowing on him from the different directions.

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Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In Irish folklore, there was a man in the wind - fear nagaoithe (the wind-man). In late autumn he destroyed stacks of corn and hay which the farmers hadn't put into the barn. He could also use his bellows to bring the storms... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Arthur Rackham

Autumn leaves are orange, a crowd of faces with hair flying is blowing the trees and the leaves.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Migrating geese have long been seasonal timekeepers. Their great autumn formations told people something calendars now do more precisely...that the year was turning. Folklore and weather lore paid attention because sometimes the sky itself announced the season. #FolkloreThursday Art: Robert Bateman

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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `An #Cailleach grows old in autumn and becomes younger as the winter passes, until in spring she relinquishes her hold and lets the summer flowers blossom.` Source: emeraldisle.ie/an-ca...

Cailleach, Slieve Gullion Forrest Park, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tsukimi, the Autumn moon viewing party, is an old tradition in Japan, held on the night of the full moon of the eighth month of the solar calendar. Seasonal produce and round rice dumplings that represent the moon are served. #FolkloreThursday

Ukiyo triptych of three women in kimono looking at the moon, with a table full of round rice dumplings. according to https://ichiban-japan.com/tsukimi-japon/ by Utagawa Kuniteru

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Harvest Moon isn't named because it's orange or enormous. It's the full moon nearest the autumn equinox. Around this time, successive moonrises occur unusually close together, historically giving farmers extra evening light during harvest. #FolkloreThursday Art: Samuel Palmer

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Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In Ireland, the last harvest sheaf could be used to find the drowned. A candle was set by the sheaf which was then placed in the water where the person had fallen in. It was allowed to drift until it came to a rest and that was where the body would be found... #FolkloreThursday 📷Sir Benjamin Stone

A life-size figure of a person made with a white dress and a sheaf of corn for a head, set amid the leaves.

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday The Polevik is a Slavic spirit of grain fields, described as a dwarf dressed in white with dark earthy skin & grass for hair. If they chance upon someone drunk or asleep in the fields they strangle them to death, and are most active at noon and dusk. 🎨 @andy-paciorek.bsky.social

Line drawing of a corn field with a bearded face woven amongst the stalks.

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Picking Apples in the Orchard 1881 Thomas Crane

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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Momiji was a witch in the mountains of Nagano. Disguised as a princess, she invited some samurai to a leaf-viewing party. That night in a dream, the god Hachiman warned one of them and gave him a sword. He awoke with the sword in his hand and used it to slay her #folklorethursday art @yokai.com

art of a woman with demon horns in traditional Japanese clothing, against a background of fall maple leaves

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Shanon Sinn @shanonsinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In Western culture, the Grim Reaper is the personification of death. Wielding a scythe, he or she has been associated with Autumn as a harvester of souls since the Black Death of the 14th Century. The Grim Reaper's name emerged in the 1800s. #FolkloreThursday 1911 Petit Journal, 1915 M. Fingesten

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday: `St. Michael’s feast day on September 29, called Michaelmas, is close enough to the autumnal Equinox that harvest festivals have collected around that day; in the Scottish islands a special harvest-bread called struan or struan Michael ( […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hello there #FolkloreThursday 🐉 That was Crystal @crystalponti.bsky.social hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social your guide for the next one hour ✨ Celebrating teh change of seasons, today's theme is "Autumn Folklore” 🍄 🍂 🐿️ Late 19th century Carl Offterdinger

Illustration of Puss in Boots waking up from a nap. He is surrounded by onlooking rabbits and an Autumn scene is behind him with long wheat blowing in the wind and a scarecrow wearing his hat. A red-breasted bird is perched in the scarecrow’s arm and is looking at the red feather in the hat.

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🍁 The autumn winds are calling me away! I’m @crystalponti.bsky.social sending a huge thank you for making my #FolkloreThursday hour positively spellbinding. ✨ The storybook opens again at 6:30 BST, when @shanonsinn.bsky.social takes the lantern to host our final hour. 🍂🕯️ Art: UK Art Studio

A warm, atmospheric autumn painting of a country path glowing in shades of amber, gold, and rust. A weathered wooden fence curves alongside the path beneath a magnificent old tree ablaze with golden-orange leaves. Dark evergreens and shadowy woods frame the scene, while soft light filters through the branches, making the fallen leaves shimmer and giving the landscape an almost enchanted quality.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The divine embodiment of the autumn season 🎨Iren Horrors #FolkloreThursday

A horned red-haired maiden who embodies the autumn season, and is accompanied by a flock of sprites with fiery wings. Illustration by Iren Horrors.

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday 🌾🎃 In the 1800s, Pennsylvania farmers tied red scarves onto mannequins to frighten crows from their fields. They called these eerie guardians “Bogeymen.” #Scarecrows #Bogeyman ~ Old Pennsylvania Folklore Art: Paintings By Simon / Simon Rudd #Scarecrow #Boogeyman

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Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Non resident woodcock usually arrived in Ireland on the first full moon in November and it was believed they had spent their summers on the moon... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Beneath a vast blue sky studded with symmetrical stars, a woman with a crown stands atop a crescent moon on its back. stormy black and red cloud

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Michaelmas daisies earned their name because they bloom around the feast of St. Michael on September 29. Their late purple flowers became a traditional sign of the changing season. Before calendars were everywhere, the landscape itself announced autumn's progress. #FolkloreThursday Image: Unknown

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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anything can come to monstrous life in Japan, including vegetables. In one legend, a pumpkin monster called Sunamura no onryō appeared in the neighborhood of Sunamura night after night, terrorizing people by chasing them around #FolkloreThursday

old Japanese print of a walking vine carrying a pumpkin as its head

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday 🎃🇨🇦 Halloween mischief, Nova Scotia style! In Acadian communities, young people once slipped out on Halloween night to steal vegetables from their neighbours’ gardens. Forget guarding the candy. Lock up your cabbages and turnips! 😂🥬🥕 🎨 Halloween Lucky Thirteen by Bonnie White

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Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Garden magic suggests carrying an acorn in your pocket for protection against storms, evil intent and losing your way... #FolkloreThursday

A poster which reads Autumn in Welwyn and shows a large red squirrel and a small brown mouse sharing an acorn feast. Smaller print beneath the image reads Houses to let.

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday 🧹🍂 In European #Broomlore, sweeping after sunset could sweep in misfortune. Suspect a hex? 👁️ Spit on your broom to break it! 🌙 During #Mabon, a new broom swept away old energy. 🧹✨ Make a wish while sweeping and it might come true. 💫 🧹 Georgia Marfels on Etsy

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The fuzzy woolly bear caterpillar supposedly predicts winter by the width of its rusty middle band: wider means mild, narrower means severe. It isn't a reliable meteorologist, but every autumn this tiny caterpillar gets dragged back into forecasting anyway. #FolkloreThursday Art: Hillary Farmer

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Jelske Anna @jelleanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“In still, dark weather, which happens at the time of the autumn equinox, roosters will often crow all day and all night.” Yup, that’s what’s happening rn. It’s definitely not helping my migraine. But I found some good folklore that made me tolerate the incessant beast #FolkloreThursday

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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Everyone talks about the cherry blossoms, but the autumn blooming chrysanthemum is also a traditional symbol of Japan, depicted in the Imperial crest and on passports. A remarkable traditional way of growing them prunes and trains a single plant into a large cascade of flowers #FolkloreThursday

a yellow chrysanthemum plant, just starting to bloom, trained into a cascade of flowers trailing out of the pot

cover of Japanese passport from Wikipedia. Red with a stylized gold chysanthemum

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Kieu Anh @k13uanh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

flesh shifting to fur hungering lycanthrope leers forms caped in crimson moon discs bleeding from within it laps the pooling craters #vss365 #hunger #vsshorror #FolkloreThursday #tanka

Two moons depicted in a cloudy darkened sky - white full moon overlayed with a blood moon among

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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🌿🌊🌿'Undine' - written by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - illustrated by Arthur Rackham. "Forget not that I am here with thee as a guide." #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"School Harvest Festival Parents and friends were present at the Down County Modern School for Girls, on Friday last week, for the school's harvest festival, which was conducted by the Rev. F. E. Walker." Bexhill Observer 4.10.1947 #FolkloreThursday #HarvestFestival #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1940s

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday 🎃🐎 Beware the Headless Horseman! Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) echoes older European headless-rider lore, often compared with Ireland’s dreaded Dullahan. 🐎 🎃 🔥 Some legends never die. They just keep riding. 💀🌙 #AutumnReads 🍂

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

After the Devil went out collecting nuts on Devil’s Nutting Day (21 Sept), the Virgin Mary suddenly appeared. Startled by this, Satan dropped the sack of nuts which turned into the Devils’ Bag of Nuts (aka Alcock’s Arbour), a hill near Haselor, Warwickshire. #FolkloreThursday

Track passing by the Devil's Bag of Nuts

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Mel 🍂🍄 @thequietplace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Inspired by the Latin word for “star” due to its shape Asters were revered as a sacred flower (possibly created by the goddess Astraea) by Greeks and Romans who decorated shrines with Aster wreaths. It’s also called the Michaelmas Daisy because it flowers around Sept 29th #FolkloreThursday

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday: `The Corn Dolly was often crafted from the last sheaf cut at harvest-time. Its origins are obscure but clearly mythic or ritual. Often the Corn Dolly was stored in a house or barn from fall until spring, when it played a role in sowing or […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The last sheaf, The National Museum of Ireland - Country Life, Turlough, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#FolkloreThursday 🐺 Sept 24 in the old Romanian shepherd villages: Teclele (Teclele Berbecilor). Don’t sweep the house, don’t spin wool, don’t work skins, don’t lend fire. 🔥 The day wears St Thecla’s feast, but the taboos are older fire-and-wolf spirits. Break them and the pack takes your rams 🐏

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Michaelmas Daisy - 29th September is Michaelmas, the Feast Day of St Michael the defender against evil. It marks the end of harvest and the start of autumn. The flower symbolises farewell and transition. The act of giving the bloom to another represents the saying of farewell. #FolkloreThursday

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🍁🍂 Welcome, autumn wanderers! I’m @crystalponti.bsky.social, taking the #FolkloreThursday reins for the next hour! Thanks to @mythcrafts.bsky.social for hosting before the break. Now bring on the falling leaves, harvest lore, autumn omens, & old seasonal magic! 🌾🍎✨ Art: Muy Lindo

A whimsical autumn woodland illustration shows a tiny cottage built into the roots of an old tree. A rabbit carrying a pumpkin stands outside beside a basket overflowing with pumpkins, while an owl watches from a branch above. Through the open rounded door, a cozy room glows with lamplight, a steaming mug, and autumn treats. Golden leaves drift through the forest, creating a warm, storybook atmosphere.

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thank you for all the #Folklorethursday treats over the last hour. This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social signing off, but keep those tweets coming as @crystalponti.bsky.social will be back to host after the break. Img: Autumn Leaves, by Georgia O’Keeffe

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 24/09/2026

“The Harvest Old Wife (a Chailleach).—In harvest, there was a struggle to escape being the last done with the shearing… The fear entertained was that of having the ‘famine of the farm’ (gort a bhaile), in the shape of an imaginary old woman (cailleach), to feed till next harvest” #FolkloreThursday

From Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, Collected Entirely from Oral Sources, by John Gregorson Campbell (1900)

The Harvest Old Wife (a Chailleach).—In harvest, there was a struggle to escape being the last done with the shearing, and when tillage in common existed, instances were known of a ridge being left unshorn (no person would claim it) because of it being behind the rest. The fear entertained was that of having the ‘famine of the farm’ (gort a bhaile), in the shape of an imaginary old woman (cailleach), to feed till next harvest. Much emulation and amusement arose from the fear of this old woman; and from it arose the expression, “Better is a mercy-leap in harvest than a sheaf additional” (’As fearr leum-iochd a’s t’ fhogaradh na sguab a bharrachd). The cum-iochd, or mercy-leap, is where a rocky mound or a soft spot, where no corn grows, occurs in a ridge. Its occurrence was a great help to the shearing being done.

The first done made a doll of some blades of corn, which was called the ‘old wife,’ and sent it to his nearest neighbour. He in turn, when ready, passed it to another still less expeditious, and the person it last remained with had the ‘old woman’ to keep for that year. The old wife was known in Skye as the Cripple Goat (a Ghobhar Bhacach).

The fear of the Cailleach in harvest made a man in Saor-bheinn, in the Ross of Mull, who farmed his land in common with another, rise and shear his corn by moonlight. In the morning he found it was his neighbour’s corn he had cut.

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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Jinmenju is a tree that bears fruit in the autumn that looks exactly like a human head. They can't speak, but they can laugh, and if they laugh too hard they fall off the tree. #FolkloreThursday hyakumonogatari.com/2012/06/03/j...

illustration by Shigeru Mizuki of a tree with human heads growing from it

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

THE FAIRY FELLER'S MASTER STROKE is on display at the RCA giving access to the stunning detail of a fairy #autumn. Dadd depicts the fairy 'feller' about to split a large chestnut with his axe to make a new carriage for Queen Mab, amid the prickly fruits of the London Plane Tree #FolkloreThursday

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Tiffany Leigh Rose 🖤🥀 @tlrose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

After the harvest Roggenwolf (Rye Wolf), a German field spirit, must be left a sheath of rye as shelter during the winter to ensure they won’t destroy future crops or attack/kidnap the locals. #FolkloreThursday Phenomenal 🎨The Midday Man by Janna Sophia jannasophia.art

An illustration of a spirit in black garb tempting a child from within a field. there are wolf-like creatures with red eyes depicted within the wheat.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The eerie autumn call of the barn owl helped give owls ominous reputations in folklore. Their nocturnal habits, pale faces, and uncanny cries made them natural companions to stories of death and supernatural warning. Evolution accidentally designed an excellent ghost. #FolkloreThursday Art: Alyssa

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Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The seven whistlers manifest on stormy nights as a shrieking, whistling noise across the English skies. It is said they are seven of the devil’s demons loose from the Wild Hunt, in search of lost souls. A portent of doom for any who hear them... 🎨Valentin Ruths #FolkloreThursday

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Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘If you catch a falling leaf, you will have twelve months of continued happiness' Dip in beeswax to make a garland. The beeswax is a pain to melt, but the scent fills the house and the leaves last for ages. #FolkloreThursday

Leaf garland made with autumn leaves dipped in beeswax

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MythCrafts @mythcrafts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Greek demi-god Triptolemus presides over the sowing of grains and the milling of wheat and was the first initiate into the Eleusian Mysteries. His name literally translating to ‘he who pounds the husks’. #FolkloreThursday mythcrafts.com/2017/09/21/t...

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Triptolemus: The Greek Demi-God of Agriculture.

As we sit munching on our toast each morning, there are few of us that would even think to thank the demi-god Triptolemus. The one who, according to Greek mythology, presides over the sowing of gra…

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Amanda Edmiston, Botanica Fabula @botanicafabula.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gathering beech mast is for my workshop at Allen valley folk festival this coming Sunday where we’ll be looking at tree lore and creating a giant beech mast poem in this beautiful clearing said to have inspired W.H.Auden and been used by John Wesley to share his beliefs💫🍂 #folklorethursday

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hello #Folklorethursday and thank you @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting the last session. This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social offering you a virtual cup of mulled wine as we toast to the stories of the harvest season. Img: The Autumn by Alphonse Mucha

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks for the rich harvest of Autumn-lore over the past hour, this is @botanicafabula.bsky.social handing over the #folklorethursday mantle to the magical @mythcrafts.bsky.social who will take you up to the break🍂 I'm now off to gather beech mast!

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Amanda Edmiston, Botanica Fabula @botanicafabula.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Houseleeks on the roof to protect from lightning, horseshoe to protect and hold good luck, all the ancient tricks come to play as the grain arrived to be milled…has this all been lost in the last 60 years or are the fragments still there amongst modern farming monoculture? #folklorethursday

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 24/09/2026

“In Gaelic tradition, the last sheaf or sguab mu dheireadh…was crafted into a superstitious charm, which could take the form of a simple plait of straws tied up with ribbon, or may be crafted into a corn dolly and even clothed.” #FolkloreThursday www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/blog/a-rich-...

Corn dollies collected by anthropologist Robert Craig Maclagan (1839 – 1919). Left Cailleach from Islay; right Maighdean Bhuana from Argyllshire

The dollies are a little bit flattened, and shown side by side within a brown frame. They are made of snips of cloth – some quite fine – and ribbon, placed like skirts around a small bundle of oats or barley with the seeds still on. The dolly on the left has two little tufts poking out of the bottom of its skirt, presumably representing feet.

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Amanda Edmiston, Botanica Fabula @botanicafabula.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Scottish heritage:bloody ploughman apples are ready to pluck at Culross palace garden~the story goes they first grew from seeds found in the pocket of a ploughman killed for scrumping at Megginch estate in Kinross~ I share the story in my latest book Collected Curiosities #folklorethursday

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